elicited by each ear input up to auditory cortex. We recorded the auditory steady-state field in each hemisphere independently and evaluated the binaural interaction in normal-hearing subjects and patients with hearing impairment. In normal-hearing subjects ipsilateral input was suppressed more than contralateral input under binaural condition and there was no effect of sound intensity. In pati...

The thalamus is the main sensory input to the cerebral cortex, not only for auditory stimuli, but also for visual and somatosensory stimuli (Alitto and Usrey, 2003). On the other hand, approximately half of the neuron input to the dorsal thalamus come from the cortex. These corticothalamic feedback connections seem to be important for sensory processing in the visual, auditory and somatosensory...

Despite the functional importance of the medial geniculate body (MGB) in normal hearing, many aspects of its projections to auditory cortex are unknown. We analyzed the MGB projections to 13 auditory areas in the cat using two retrograde tracers to investigate thalamocortical nuclear origins, topography, convergence, and divergence. MGB divisions and auditory cortex areas were defined independe...

This study set out to explore whether different input enhancement tasks as implicit instruction techniques had any significant impact on the intake of causative verbs in English as a foreign language among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, three intact classes consisting of 75 male and female intermediate L2 learners were randomly divided into three conditions: simultaneous grammar consci...

This paper suggests a neural network architecture for the streaming of an acoustic input using fundamental grouping cues of the mammalian auditory system. The auditory periphery is simulated using biologically relevant models, and the primary auditory cortex is represented by a neural network layer, in which three di erent features of the input are mapped and streamed. Finally, an attentional s...